1st Amendment protest (of police misbehavior, go figure). It has seen 7400+ of my fellow Occupiers arrested, some brutally beaten, two peaceful Veterans nearly killed by roid cops. This administration has specifically stated in regard to Egypt, that attacks upon peaceful protesters are "unacceptable" (Obama said it). Yet here we are with a peaceful, 1st Amendment citizen movement being subjected to what is essentially domestic terrorism (read the definitions). Oddly, most often in cities with Democratic mayors (Los Angeles, Denver, Seattle, Portland, Oakland, Phoenix IIRC, etc. etc. etc.) Not a word from Obama. Not a word. In well over a year. Well, he DID sign HR347 which makes it a federal crime with up to 10 years in prison for protesting where secret service are at work, and then he gave himself and war criminal W Bush life-time secret service protection. He has also limited the STOCK act, which makes it simpler to keep track of insider trading among Congresspeople. And the record deportations of "illegal immigrants" years and years in a row. The astonishing crack-down on whistle-blowers.
Obama extended the "patriot act". Then the Bush "tax cuts". Then drones. And more drones. Then the execution of US citizens abroad suspected of terrorism, with neither trial nor representation (unConstitutional). Then he signed on New Year's Eve, the 2011 NDAA whose section 1021 allows for the indefinite detention of US citizens with neither trial nor representation. Chris Hedges and others SUED Obama over this, to have it struck down. They did! It was ruled unConstitutional. Obama sent lawyers and they got it reinstated. Then he signed it again. Then the NDRP. No veto of another five years of FISA. Then "DHS", who have spent a trillion taxpayer dollars, say they can seize your electronics anywhere within the United States along the border, up to 100 miles inland, on a "hunch".
Keeping track? That is the effective death of the 1st, 4th, and 5th Amendments to the Constitution. All of this AFTER Bush, during Obama's administration.
Now add the issues which birthed Occupy, social and economic monstrosities which DEMANDED a social movement to challenge them, because politicians most definitely were NOT. None of it has changed. In fact, Obama has continued to both bail out and legally protect wall street, corporations, and the big banks. Period.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022445620
Basically, I voted for Obama. Then he increasingly became revealed not only as not being a Democrat (FDR values), then he is revealed as a wall street lackey, then he appoints a Monsanto executive to the FDA and billionaire Penny Pritzker...does nothing to stop the surveillance state. Increases it. Allows or orders domestic terrorism upon the citizens he's supposed to represent.
I am a radical. To me, this government is illegal, it is unConstitutional through its own support of unConstitutional legislation. It carries forward the neocon and Bush Disaster Family agenda. It is a tool of the plutonomists who run the economy and are taking over the government.
Hear that? This administration carries forward and strengthens Bush's legislation. The Bush who stole one, probably two elections.
Why then in the world am I still here? Because I love this country and its founding principles and wish to spread certain truths intended to cultivate an uprising against those who would negate our very founding principles, be it through voting which at the top levels barely seems to work anymore (wall street bailouts, drones, etc. etc. etc. are simply not things about which we are given a CHOICE, even though it is our money, it is our country), to gather perception and disapproval against the forces destroying this country and the Democratic experiment itself. I would love to see the Democratic party return to FDR values and to provide them for the people of this country whom they are supposed to represent. Yet I only see Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren and perhaps Allan Grayson (don't know enough about him yet) doing ANYTHING about these very real issues. Until and unless this sort of shit can be gotten together, I have little hope for government at the top levels.
I DO have great hope for and in the people of this country, who deserve far, far better than they're being given. It's all OURS anyway!
More, in case you missed it, because politicians just don't care:
For more regarding the source of income inequality/the bastards who run the actual economy/are ruining this country:
http://occupyobservations.blogspot.com/2013/02/the-leaked-2006-citigroup-plutonomy-memo.html
Don't understand why I'm here even after all of that? I honestly don't know why some so-called Democrats are here, when they argue FOR the neocon/Bush spying initiatives, argue FOR destroying sections of the Constitution. Because I didn't realize that Democrats were supposed to support Bush and neocon initiatives and to speak for the elimination of the Constitution. It's unbelievable. That alone would frighten me away from the label of "democrat"!! Think what you're doing!
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